Meat-hook.



GJEJTHOMPSON & I. C. 6L R. BENEDICT.

MEAT HOOK.

APPLIcA'rIoN FILED ocT.25. 1905.

ATTORN EYS UNITED sTATEs PATENT oE-EIOE.A

GEORGE E. THOMPSON, ISIDOR C. BENEDICT, AND BENEDICT,

OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY. v

S'peccaton of Letters Patent.

- ratented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed October 25,1905. Serial No. 284,346.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

YBe it known that we, GEORGE E. 4THOMP- soN, Ismon C. BENEDICT, and REUBEN' BEN- EDIoT, citizens of the United States, residing in Paterson, countyT of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful `Improvements in Meat-Hooks; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the handling of beef, articularly in removing it from cars and re rigerators in vessels where it is hung on hooks suspended from rails, two men at least are required. The hooks are formed rebent at the upper portion, so as to removably hook on the rails, and while one man removes the meat from A the hook the other holds the hook down on the rail. Even thus a hook, through carelessness, often falls and injures one of the men.

Our invention has for its object to provide Y a hook which will have means whereby upward displacement, and possibly complete disengagement, thereof from the rail will be absolutely prevented, exec t where it is intended to remove it from t 1c rail, and thus only one man, instead of two, bc needed to remove the meat from the hooks.

Our invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherem.

Figure 1 is a side View of one form of our improved hook. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a slight modification. Fig. 3 is a front view of the hook shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 illustratesanother modified form of the invention.

In the drawin s, a designates the rail, which may be eit er a flat or round rail, as 4 5 illustrated in the drawings.

b is' the hook, having the usual sharpened hook portion c at its lower end and rebend d inserted in the holes gvof the shank-and ex- Y' tremity of the rebentportion passes under the rail a, and thus eiectually revents the. hook from u Ward movement w en the Ameat is lifted oii t e hook. Several sets-of holes g are provided so that various sizes of rails may be accommodated.` vIn order to' prevent the pin from slipping out, it may either be made to fit rather snugly in the holes or provided with threads j, adapted to enter corres o'nding threads in one of the holes g, as in ig. 2.-

n the long tyipe of hook shown inFig. 1, which is adapte for receiving fore-quarters of beef, the pin will be more convenientlyinserted from the front of the hook. In the short type of hook, which is adapted to receive hind quarters, the pin is lpreferably inserted from the rear of the hoo Having thus fully described our invention, 7 5 what we claim, and desire to secure by Let` ters Patent of the United States, is' l The combination, with the rail of the hook having its up er end rebent and hooked over the rail, the ook-shank and the rebent or- 8o tion havin alined holes, and a pin attac ed to the hool and removably arran ed in said holes, whereby to fprevent upwar displacement of the `hook o the rail, substantially as described. A

In testimony that we claim the fore oing we have hereunto set our hands this 23d day of October, 1905. H"

GEO. E. THOMPSON. ISIDOR C. BENEDICT. REUBEN BENEDICT.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ADELE GLATT. 

